Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
Quotes to Explore
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.
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Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.
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I love football, I've never really taken an interest in anything else.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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I love Billy Joel. I cry sometimes when I hear 'The Stranger.' 'You May Be Right' may be one of the greatest songs ever written.
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The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
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Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.
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I believe things happen that can't be explained, but so many people seem intent on explaining them. Everyone has an answer for them. Either aliens or things from the spirit world.
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Vamps no longer exist. Stars have taken their roles.
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Summertime is my favorite time of year in Sandpoint, reason being, Lake Pend Oreille is warm and ready for action.
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This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.
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When you look at Google, its job is to find you the perfect web page. There are a lot of cases when you want to know something and a list of websites isn't ideal.
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The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?
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This match is about sport and I separate that completely from politics.
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It's so fun to play a villain. I get to tap into a side of myself I thought I never had.
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I Love your lips when they're wet with wine and red with wicked desire.
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I know when somebodys heard my music. I can hear it in their music.
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The longest day must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.
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I would rather win souls than be the greatest king or emperor on earth; I would rather win souls than be the greatest general that ever commanded an army; I would rather win souls than be the greatest poet, or novelist, or literary man who ever walked the earth. My one ambition in life is to win as many as possible.
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But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep — into the evil.
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It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
